Date: 2 July 2013 Recipients: All Trading Participants Eurex Deutschland and Eurex Zürich and Vendors Authorized by: Peter Reitz Action required High priority Market-Making in options: Strategy Market-Making Related Eurex Clearing Circular: 079/13 Contact: Sascha Semroch, T +49-69-211-1 50 78, sascha.semroch@eurexchange.com Content may be most important for: All departments Attachments: none Summary: On 19 June 2013, the Management Boards the Eurex Exchanges decided to amend the Market Maker Obligations in selected options products by the obligation to: respond to quote requests (RFQs) in standard option series (simple instruments), respond to quote requests in option strategies (complex instruments). The new requirements will be effective as 1 August 2013. The response to quote requests in option strategies starts with a 3 months test phase until 31 October 2013. For more information on the pricing related to the amendments, please refer to Eurex Clearing circular 079/13. Eurex Deutschland Börsenplatz 4 60313 Frankfurt/Main Mailing address: 60485 Frankfurt/Main Germany T +49-69-211-1 17 00 F +49-69-211-1 17 01 memberservices@ eurexchange.com Internet: www.eurexchange.com Management Board: Thomas Book, Michael Peters, Andreas Preuss, Peter Reitz, Jürg Spillmann ARBN: 101 013 361
Market-Making in options: Strategy Market-Making 1. Summary On 19 June 2013, the Management Boards the Eurex Exchanges decided to amend the Market Maker Obligations in selected options products by the obligation to: respond to quote requests (RFQs) in standard option series (simple instruments), respond to quote requests in options strategies (complex instruments). The new requirements will be effective as 1 August 2013. The response to quote requests in option strategies starts with a 3 months test phase until 31 October 2013. 2. Response to quote requests in standard options (simple instruments) Market Makers are required to respond to incoming quote requests (RFQs): with a response time 60 seconds after submission the RFQ, holding a two-way market quote for ten seconds, whereby prices can be updated during this period, in the minimum quote size according to the AMM/PMM requirement the product, at the maximum spread according to the AMM/PMM requirement the product. On a daily basis, 50 percent all incoming valid quote requests need to be answered, up to a maximum 150 quote requests. The Market Maker performance is measured on a monthly average. 2.1 Limitation The requirement to respond to RFQs is limited to: expirations that need to be quoted in the AMM/PMM model in the respective product, series that are not covered by a valid Market Maker quote. This requirement will be valid for all constituents (including the index options) the following AMM packages: FR, ESX50, NL, DE, IE, CH, RU, UK, BE, ES, IT, SC. It applies to the AMM and PMM schemes only. 2.2 Reporting Market Makers can monitor their quote request performance using the existing reports: RPTD941 Daily Permanent Market-Making Request Performance RPTD942 Daily Advanced Market-Making Request Performance RPTD946 MTD-Permanent Market-Making Request Performance Measurement RPTD947 MTD-Advanced Market-Making Request Performance Measurement 3. Response to quote requests in option strategies (complex instruments) - SWMM Market Makers are required to respond to incoming quote requests in specific option strategies. A quote request is defined as a dedicated electronic RFQ message or as a change in the Eurex reference data (the creation a complex instrument): Respond to incoming strategy requests with a response time max. 20 seconds; Holding time hold a quote for one minute. If a strategy quote is traded, the obligation for the required holding time for the specific strategy is deemed to be fulfilled. Please note: s can be updated as ten as necessary during the holding time. If the same strategy is re-requested, a new quote should be entered and again held for one minute. page 1 5
3.1 Limitation Per product and day, a maximum number 200 valid strategy requests in option strategies are counted which 80 percent must be answered; The strike price window (SPW) and the maturity range the AMM/PMM scheme provide the universe options combinations for each product; strategies where at least one leg is outside the SPW need not be quoted; Strategies that contain an options leg that expires five days later or less will not be part the measurement; 3.2 Product scope Fixed income options (OGBL, OGBM, OGBS), Blue Chip index options (DAX, EURO STOXX 50 and SMI ) and options on the 20 most liquid single names (see below). 3.3 Quotation parameters The quotation parameters relate to the quotation parameters the option. Minimum quote size dependent upon the options combination a given strategy, the minimum strategy quote size is a the minimum quote size (Outrights) Option Strategies = * quote size (Outrights) Maximum s Depending on the options combination, the maximum spread will be a the respective maximum spread the options spread class The spread will be determined by the net premium the option strategy: o Example: EURO STOXX 50 options are in spread class 10, where options premia from 15 to 225 index points can be quoted with an 8 percent spread. A call spread would for instance be quoted at 1x the spread, here 8 percent spread the net premium the strategy. o A call spread consisting a long call with a premium 40 points and a short call with a premium 20 points can be quoted 1.6 points wide (20 x 8 percent) as the net premium is only 20 points. There are four sets strategies and respective quotation parameters: 1. Index options: ODAX, OESX, OSMI Strategy name Expiration range Relative to spread Call BUL no 1-5 1 3 Call BUL no 6-8 2 3 Put BER no 1-5 1 3 Put BER no 6-8 2 3 Call Butterfly CBUT no 1-8 2 3 Put Butterfly PBUT no 1-8 2 3 BLT no 1-5 1 3 page 2 5
Strategy name Expiration range Relative to spread BLT no 1-8 2 3 BRT no 1-5 1 3 BRT no 1-8 2 3 Straddle STD no 1-8 2 1 Straddle Calender Straddle Calender STDT no 1-5 1 1 STDT No 1-8 2 1 Strangle STG no 1-8 2 1 RBUL no 1-5 3 2 RBER no 1-5 3 2 2. Fixed income options: OGBL, OGBM, OGBS Strategy name underlying? Expiration range Call BUL no 1-2 1 2 Put BER no 1-2 1 2 Call Butterfly CBUT no 1-2 2 3 Put Butterfly PBUT no 1-2 2 3 BLT no 1-2 1 2 BRT no 1-2 1 2 Straddle STD no 1-2 2 1 Straddle Calender STDT no 1-2 2 1 Strangle STG no 1-2 2 1 RBUL no 1-2 4 1 RBER no 1-2 4 1 page 3 5
3. Swiss equity options: ABBN, CSGN, NESN, NOVN, UBSN, ZURN Strategy name Expiratio n range Call BUL no 1-5 1 1 Call BUL no 6-8 2 1 Put BER no 1-5 1 1 Put BER no 6-8 2 1 Call Butterfly CBUT no 1-8 2 1 Put Butterfly PBUT no 1-8 2 1 BLT no 1-5 1 1 BRT no 1-5 1 1 Straddle STD no 1-8 2 1 Straddle Calender STDT no 1-5 1 1 Strangle STG no 1-8 2 1 RBUL no 1-5 3 1 RBER no 1-5 3 1 4. Other equity options: ALV, BAS, BMW, CBK, DAI, DBK, DTE, EOA, IFX, NOA3, RWE, SAP, SIE, TKA Strategy name Expiration range Call BUL no 1-5 1 3 Call BUL no 6-8 2 3 Put BER no 1-5 1 3 Put BER no 6-8 2 3 Call Butterfly CBUT no 1-8 2 3 Put Butterfly PBUT no 1-8 2 3 BLT no 1-5 1 3 BRT no 1-5 1 3 Straddle STD no 1-8 2 1 Straddle Calender STDT no 1-5 1 1 page 4 5
Strategy name Expiration range Strangle STG no 1-8 2 1 RBUL no 1-5 3 2 RBER no 1-5 3 2 3.4 Reporting Daily reports will be available which summarize the quote performance per product. For both AMM and PMM, one report covers the month-to-date performance: Strategy Market-Making Performance within the AMM Programme: RPTD949 Strategy Market-Making Performance within the PMM Programme: RPTD948 A second report summarizes all strategy quote requests the previous day per product and the respective fulfilment the Exchange Participant: Strategy Requests within the AMM Programme: RPTD944 Strategy Requests within the PMM Programme: RPTD943 The reports can be retrieved from the Common Report Engine (CRE). They will be available as 10 August 2013. 3.5 Market Maker rebates Market Maker rebates in the affected products will reflect fulfilment the strategy Market-Making obligations. Ten percentage points the respective AMM/PMM rebate will be attributed to the fulfilment the strategy Market-Making obligations (SWMM). Example: Current AMM rebate in ALV for order book trades: 80 percent Future AMM rebate in ALV for order book trades: 70 percent Future SWMM rebate in ALV for order book trades: 10 percent SWMM rebates will only be granted in combination with either AMM or PMM fulfilment. Please note: The change in Market Maker rebates will become effective on 1 November 2013. For further details please refer to Eurex Clearing circular 079/13. 2 July 2013 page 5 5